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Is it a crackdown by the cops? Stricter rules about sidewalk camping? No.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s $9 ice cream cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just a couple blocks from the mural is an upscale ice cream shop called Peddler’s Creamery. It’s the kind of place that embodies the changing face of L.A.’s historic core -- the neighborhood that rubs right up against the hard stubble of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stop by the place with Mike Alvirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s organically grown, sustainably farmed ingredients that he uses in his ice cream by peddling on his bicycle,” says Alvirez, beaming at the site of the Rube Goldberg-esque bicycle-powered ice cream churn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvirez is chief of the \u003ca title=\"SKid Row Housing Trust\" href=\"http://skidrow.org/\">Skid Row Housing Trust\u003c/a>. The nonprofit owns around two dozen buildings, including the New Genesis, also home to Peddler’s Creamery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498179\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior of the New Genesis apartments on the border of Skid Row and L.A.’s rapidly changing Historic Core. \" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-1440x890.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-1180x729.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-768x474.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-320x198.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior of the New Genesis apartments on the border of Skid Row and L.A.’s rapidly changing Historic Core. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The top floors of the New Genesis are reserved for low-income housing. 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She does worry about the proliferation of sidewalk encampments, which the police essentially ignore. A number of ordinances and court rulings handcuff their ability to seize a person’s belongings. Besten is sympathetic yet frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is someone’s personal property really needs to be defined because five shopping carts filled with garbage and tents and tarps dedicated to one individual probably isn’t making their lives any better,” says Besten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people need to be integrated in their own communities rather than being pushed out of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Navales agrees that other cities need to do more to help the homeless in their own communities. Navales is a community outreach coordinator with the \u003ca title=\"Midnight Mission\" href=\"http://www.midnightmission.org/%20\">Midnight Mission\u003c/a>, one of Skid Row’s oldest and biggest shelters and service providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness doesn’t have any city barriers, and there’s a real need for the services to be regionalized,” says Navales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498183\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"A sign on the window of the SRO Housing Corporation in Skid Row\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-400x285.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-1440x1025.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-768x546.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-320x228.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign on the window of the SRO Housing Corp. in Skid Row \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can’t have all that down here, it just stresses the system. 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It’s the kind of place that embodies the changing face of L.A.’s historic core -- the neighborhood that rubs right up against the hard stubble of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I stop by the place with Mike Alvirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s organically grown, sustainably farmed ingredients that he uses in his ice cream by peddling on his bicycle,” says Alvirez, beaming at the site of the Rube Goldberg-esque bicycle-powered ice cream churn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvirez is chief of the \u003ca title=\"SKid Row Housing Trust\" href=\"http://skidrow.org/\">Skid Row Housing Trust\u003c/a>. The nonprofit owns around two dozen buildings, including the New Genesis, also home to Peddler’s Creamery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498179\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498179\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-800x494.jpg\" alt=\"Exterior of the New Genesis apartments on the border of Skid Row and L.A.’s rapidly changing Historic Core. \" width=\"800\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-800x494.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-400x247.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-1440x890.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-1180x729.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-768x474.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior-320x198.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-NewGen-exterior.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior of the New Genesis apartments on the border of Skid Row and L.A.’s rapidly changing Historic Core. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The top floors of the New Genesis are reserved for low-income housing. And in a controversial move, the Trust created spaces on the ground floor for a couple of retailers that cater to the area’s more affluent newcomers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a double-edged sword. It does obviously create more pressure on homeless folks for those who want to see them get swept away,” says Alvirez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But at the same time I think many of the downtown residents who have chosen to live in downtown, understanding that there is this population in Skid Row, want to see something done about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are a lot of homeless people and a lot of desperation packed into one 70-square-block sliver of Skid Row. One thing that’s woefully lacking is low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skid Row has been losing cheap housing for years, as the neighborhood’s old residence hotels and apartment buildings were torn down or transformed into market-rate apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10498180 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-800x528.jpg\" alt=\"HOUSING SK StarApts\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-800x528.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-400x264.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-1440x950.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-1180x779.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-768x507.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts-320x211.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-StarApts.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exterior of the modular and modernist Star Apartments, built two years ago in the heart of Skid Row\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These days there are a little more than 3,000 low-income housing units in the Skid Row area, and more than double the number of people living on the streets on any given day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one time, that kind of thing would have been enough to scare off the most hardened of urban dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not so much anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in, technically, the boundaries of Skid Row,” says real estate agent Blair Besten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She chose to move to the Skid Row area when she took a job as director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4NDKB_enUS581US581&q=Historic+Core+Business+Improvement+District%20\">Historic Core Business Improvement District, \u003c/a>an organization that represents downtown merchants, developers and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A great many of them come down here and find out maybe it’s a little bit of an edgier experience than they were expecting,” says Besten of many of the area’s new denizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10498182 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"HOUSING SK BukKeroWaits\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-800x526.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-1440x947.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-1180x776.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-768x505.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits-320x211.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-BukKeroWaits.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cultural ‘patron saints’ of Skid Row: Images of Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski and John Fante are stenciled on the wall of an alley behind the New Genesis apartments.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because we do find ourselves adjunct to Skid Row, and we do have a considerable homeless population here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besten lives in a building on the edge of Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s raising a family there, too. She does worry about the proliferation of sidewalk encampments, which the police essentially ignore. A number of ordinances and court rulings handcuff their ability to seize a person’s belongings. Besten is sympathetic yet frustrated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is someone’s personal property really needs to be defined because five shopping carts filled with garbage and tents and tarps dedicated to one individual probably isn’t making their lives any better,” says Besten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people need to be integrated in their own communities rather than being pushed out of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Navales agrees that other cities need to do more to help the homeless in their own communities. Navales is a community outreach coordinator with the \u003ca title=\"Midnight Mission\" href=\"http://www.midnightmission.org/%20\">Midnight Mission\u003c/a>, one of Skid Row’s oldest and biggest shelters and service providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness doesn’t have any city barriers, and there’s a real need for the services to be regionalized,” says Navales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10498183\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10498183\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"A sign on the window of the SRO Housing Corporation in Skid Row\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-800x569.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-400x285.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-1440x1025.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-1180x840.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-768x546.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage-320x228.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/HOUSING-SK-signage.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign on the window of the SRO Housing Corp. in Skid Row \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“You can’t have all that down here, it just stresses the system. There’s already a lack of housing, so that’s what you’re facing is a housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordable housing apartments that currently do exist on Skid Row cannot be converted to market rates. A 2008 ordinance shields them from commercial development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge is adding more affordable housing units to an area that’s becoming one of the hottest real estate markets in town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have allowed this to persist for decades and it’s shameful,” says Alvirez. “It should have never gotten to this point. We can’t solve it unless we own it. This is our problem that we have to fix.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Skid Row can feel like a chaotic airport terminal -- people carting their possessions down the street and jaywalking in front of speeding cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s always someone yelling or screaming, and there's often the howl of sirens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 60,000 homeless people live in the city of Los Angeles. But you might never know it until you start motoring south, past Disney Concert Hall, past City Hall, Pershing Square and newly renovated million-dollar condos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when you’ll begin the slow descent into Skid Row, arguably the largest concentration of homeless people in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/199499800\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By some estimates, there are several thousand people living on the streets of Skid Row on any given night. Many are camped out in tents and other makeshift shelters on the sidewalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalk at the intersection of San Pedro and Sixth, right outside the Midnight Mission, is jammed with tents, blue tarps and shopping carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at it, that sidewalk is completely impassable to regular foot traffic. Every one of these tents really is a violation of the law,” says Ryan Navales, standing outside the entrance of the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navales landed on Skid Row several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a strung-out, homeless heroin addict with few options left but determined to get clean. He signed up for a rehab program at the Midnight Mission. He got sober. And he got work doing public relations for the 100-year-old shelter, rehab center and soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-400x233.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1440x839.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1180x688.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-768x448.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-320x187.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We serve sometimes approaching 3,000 meals a day. So everybody comes down here. It used to be just a bunch of old drunken white guys,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s after the Vietnam War, it really changed demographically to different races and lots more drugs. But it’s still all the same services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where it’s all centered,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s no accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. developed a policy decades ago to purposely funnel the homeless away from downtown and other parts of the city and into a roughly 70-square block semi-industrial strip filled with residential hotels, fruit-packing warehouses and garment factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the homeless population swelled, so did the number of places to help them out. These days Skid Row is a constellation of shelters, food pantries and drug clinics, all in the midst of what can often feel like a combination open-air asylum and drug market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480657\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1440x928.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-320x206.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s hard to come down here and save people and get them into recovery when we can go right across to that tent and somebody is shooting dope because that’s what I would do,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a shelter around the corner, Carol Oakman says she was nearly blinded after being assaulted on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was beaten by two women,\" Oakman says. \"The thieving, the racketeering, narcotics distribution, you name it, all of it. All of it happens right down here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been plenty of efforts to “clean up” Skid Row. One of the latest under former Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton gave cops the authority to break up encampments and confiscate belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cluttered sidewalks, they argued, made it tougher to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge blocked the policy. The sidewalk encampments came back and so did the tension between police and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day they hassle someone in their tent, every day,” Kelly Kunta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Skid Row resident is among those still boiling over last month’s police-involved shooting death of an unarmed Cameroonian immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 43-year-old homeless man was shot after fighting with LAPD cops outside a tent. He allegedly grabbed an officer’s revolver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police got nothing better to do. There all kinds of crimes going on in this country and they hassle a man and many of these nationalities down here (living in) a tent,” said Kunta during a recent protest at the site of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Montez heard the gunshots that morning, too. He stays in a shelter just down the block. Montez sides with the cops on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hands over a creased, homemade business card; \"Minister Gary Montez, Law Enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montez earns a little cash as an on-call security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is always going to be wrong when people don’t want to respect commands, and when they’re hyped up on drugs,” Montez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor encampments presents one of Skid Row’s biggest conundrums: bring down the tents or, says Navales, essentially endorse the seedy sprawl of sidewalk camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, there will always be people who live on the fringes of society and need assistance. That’s just the way it is,” Navales says. “But should we help enable that by legislating opportunities for people to live on the sidewalks as if that’s the ultimate goal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s definitely \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a solution, says Joe Parra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After falling on hard times, he lived out of a tent for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s from the Torrance area just south of L.A. He’d never set foot on Skid Row until a couple years ago after falling on hard times. A friend let him pitch a tent in his backyard at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He saw what I was going through and he goes, 'Hey, let me talk to my wife. That way you’re not exposed to ruffians and such.' And I said, 'Man, that’d be great,' ” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His voice trails off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sorry, sorry,” he says, choking back emotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480661\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1440x1016.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-768x542.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-320x226.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parra wants to forget those days. Now he lives in a small but modern studio flat at the Star Apartments, a newly built supportive housing complex on Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we speak, Parra had just gotten back from a yoga session downstairs in the courtyard. He pauses to put an old acoustic guitar and a backpack in his apartment. He walks back out into the sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parra was among the first residents at the Star Apartments..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get here took patience and perseverance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only hope is for those who have enough self-confidence and care for themselves enough to lift themselves up,” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of just setting a tent down on the sidewalk saying, ‘This is my home from now on,' they should only look at it as temporary until you get another rung higher on the ladder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its sunny courtyards, community garden and yoga classes, the Star is pretty high up on that ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeless advocates say more housing like the Star is the best hope for Skid Row. But the quest to build more is running right up against a new wave of upscale downtown development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They have a marketing scheme to have people to buy into this newer and shinier up-and-coming downtown Los Angeles,” says Skid Row activist and resident-general Jeff Page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, we want new and shiny in Skid Row, too!”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sidewalk at the intersection of San Pedro and Sixth, right outside the Midnight Mission, is jammed with tents, blue tarps and shopping carts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look at it, that sidewalk is completely impassable to regular foot traffic. Every one of these tents really is a violation of the law,” says Ryan Navales, standing outside the entrance of the mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Navales landed on Skid Row several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was a strung-out, homeless heroin addict with few options left but determined to get clean. He signed up for a rehab program at the Midnight Mission. He got sober. And he got work doing public relations for the 100-year-old shelter, rehab center and soup kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480650\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480650\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg\" alt=\"A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \" width=\"800\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-800x466.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-400x233.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1440x839.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-1180x688.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-768x448.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920-320x187.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-tent-cluster1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Skid Row sidewalk encampment at the southern edge of Skid Row, home to the city’s warehouse and art district. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We serve sometimes approaching 3,000 meals a day. So everybody comes down here. It used to be just a bunch of old drunken white guys,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the 1970s after the Vietnam War, it really changed demographically to different races and lots more drugs. But it’s still all the same services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where it’s all centered,” he adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s no accident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. developed a policy decades ago to purposely funnel the homeless away from downtown and other parts of the city and into a roughly 70-square block semi-industrial strip filled with residential hotels, fruit-packing warehouses and garment factories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the homeless population swelled, so did the number of places to help them out. These days Skid Row is a constellation of shelters, food pantries and drug clinics, all in the midst of what can often feel like a combination open-air asylum and drug market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480657\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480657\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1440x928.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920-320x206.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-passed-out1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An unidentified passed out on the sidewalk of a Skid Row back street. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it’s hard to come down here and save people and get them into recovery when we can go right across to that tent and somebody is shooting dope because that’s what I would do,” Navales says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a shelter around the corner, Carol Oakman says she was nearly blinded after being assaulted on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was beaten by two women,\" Oakman says. \"The thieving, the racketeering, narcotics distribution, you name it, all of it. All of it happens right down here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been plenty of efforts to “clean up” Skid Row. One of the latest under former Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton gave cops the authority to break up encampments and confiscate belongings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cluttered sidewalks, they argued, made it tougher to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal court judge blocked the policy. The sidewalk encampments came back and so did the tension between police and residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every day they hassle someone in their tent, every day,” Kelly Kunta says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Skid Row resident is among those still boiling over last month’s police-involved shooting death of an unarmed Cameroonian immigrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480659\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480659\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-Africa-memorial1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street memorial still stands outside the Union Rescue for the 43-year-old homeless Cameroonian immigrant shot and killed by LAPD officers during a scuffle on March 1, 2015. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The 43-year-old homeless man was shot after fighting with LAPD cops outside a tent. He allegedly grabbed an officer’s revolver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The police got nothing better to do. There all kinds of crimes going on in this country and they hassle a man and many of these nationalities down here (living in) a tent,” said Kunta during a recent protest at the site of the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Montez heard the gunshots that morning, too. He stays in a shelter just down the block. Montez sides with the cops on this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hands over a creased, homemade business card; \"Minister Gary Montez, Law Enforcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montez earns a little cash as an on-call security guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Law enforcement is always going to be wrong when people don’t want to respect commands, and when they’re hyped up on drugs,” Montez says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outdoor encampments presents one of Skid Row’s biggest conundrums: bring down the tents or, says Navales, essentially endorse the seedy sprawl of sidewalk camping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Look, there will always be people who live on the fringes of society and need assistance. That’s just the way it is,” Navales says. “But should we help enable that by legislating opportunities for people to live on the sidewalks as if that’s the ultimate goal?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s definitely \u003cem>not\u003c/em> a solution, says Joe Parra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After falling on hard times, he lived out of a tent for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s from the Torrance area just south of L.A. He’d never set foot on Skid Row until a couple years ago after falling on hard times. A friend let him pitch a tent in his backyard at first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He saw what I was going through and he goes, 'Hey, let me talk to my wife. That way you’re not exposed to ruffians and such.' And I said, 'Man, that’d be great,' ” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His voice trails off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sorry, sorry,” he says, choking back emotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10480661\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10480661\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg\" alt=\"There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day\" width=\"800\" height=\"565\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-800x565.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-400x282.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1440x1016.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-1180x833.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-768x542.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920-320x226.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SR-bw-wall-sitting1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">There are thousands of people living in Skid Row shelters and on the street on any given day \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parra wants to forget those days. Now he lives in a small but modern studio flat at the Star Apartments, a newly built supportive housing complex on Skid Row.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we speak, Parra had just gotten back from a yoga session downstairs in the courtyard. He pauses to put an old acoustic guitar and a backpack in his apartment. He walks back out into the sunlight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parra was among the first residents at the Star Apartments..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get here took patience and perseverance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only hope is for those who have enough self-confidence and care for themselves enough to lift themselves up,” Parra says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of just setting a tent down on the sidewalk saying, ‘This is my home from now on,' they should only look at it as temporary until you get another rung higher on the ladder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With its sunny courtyards, community garden and yoga classes, the Star is pretty high up on that ladder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many homeless advocates say more housing like the Star is the best hope for Skid Row. 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"content": "\u003cp>Saeed Ghaemmaghami gets up early. While it’s still dark out, he sits at his kitchen table, sips tea, and smokes his first cigarette of the day. By 6 a.m., he’s at a nearby recording studio in the San Fernando Valley. He takes a seat in front of his microphone, flips a few switches on the control panel and begins another episode of Radio Sedaye Mardom, Farsi for \"The People’s Voice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaemmaghami greets his audience. “This is Los Angeles, California, in the United States of America,” he says. “This is Sedaye Mardom Radio. I am hoping that all of you are doing well and have started a new day, a new night and a good evening wherever you are in this world. 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For his safety, Bardia doesn’t give his last name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s one of the major sources of information in Iran,” says Ghaemmaghami.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has been many times in middle of the action in the street, in a very, very dangerous situation, close to our government arrest him, but he insists to continue his relationship with me and our radio.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through a translator, Bardia explains why he risks his life to report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This government throws acid on our faces when we come to the streets,” he says. “The only thing that I can do is to get my voice out there, through the radio, and let the world know that this government is not my representative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bardia’s information is critical because of Iran’s heavily censored media, according to Majid, who calls in from Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was my only connection to other protesters who were thinking like me,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Majid doesn’t give his last name because he was involved in anti-government activity. Two years ago, he had to flee Iran. 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"content": "\u003cp>Sun Nin Fai Lok! Chúc Mừng Năm Mới! Sae Hae Bok Mani Ba Deu Se Yo!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy New Year! We are now in lunar year 4713 -- the Year of the Wood Sheep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/193448761\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asian-American communities throughout California have annual celebrations to usher in the new year. 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"content": "\u003cp>La reciente acción ejecutiva del Presidente Obama podría abrir el camino hacia la permanencia legal para varios millones de inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos. Esta situación ha puesto en alerta a las autoridades que anticipan una oleada de estafas contra las personas que buscan consejo legal. No sólo podrán los inmigrantes perder miles de dólares por tales estafas, sino que también pueden ponerse en mayor riesgo de deportación gracias a ellas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Sharp comenta que a su despacho llegan todo el tiempo inmigrantes a contarle cómo resultaron engañados por personas que se hacían pasar por abogados de inmigración o consultores licenciados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9cjAemoi3bXtEn3ND2EU62FNgw5H0ILB\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es prácticamente el delito perfecto”, indica Sharp, quien es director legal del Centro de Recursos Centroamericanos en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando un individuo cae víctima, con el tiempo se da cuenta de lo que ha pasado, y pueden haber pasado meses y hasta años después del momento inicial en el que le pagó al supuesto abogado por el servicio legal”, explica Sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y el porcentaje de personas que en realidad se presentan a quejarse es mínimo comparado con el número de personas que cae víctima del fraude”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es por esta razón que Sharp intenta difundir la información sobre estas estafas a las personas ansiosas de solicitar la protección contra la deportación bajo la acción ejecutiva de Obama con presentar talleres en la sede del \u003ca href=\"http://www.carecen-la.org/faq-notarios/\" target=\"_blank\">Central American Resource Center\u003c/a> en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una noche reciente, unas 150 personas se amontonaron en una de las salas de reunión del Centro. La presentación incluye detalles sobre los cambios que habrá bajo la acción ejecutiva que podrían permitir que algunos inmigrantes indocumentados, incluyendo aquellos que tienen hijos que son ciudadanos estadounidenses, permanezcan legalmente en los Estados Unidos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10414258\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10414258\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1-400x263.jpg\" alt=\"Director legal del Central American Resource Center Daniel Sharp dirige un taller cuyo fin es informar a los inmigrantes sobre la reciente acción ejecutiva del Presidente Obama.\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1-800x526.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director legal del Central American Resource Center Daniel Sharp dirige un taller cuyo fin es informar a los inmigrantes sobre la reciente acción ejecutiva del Presidente Obama. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>También se advierte cautela para evitar a los abogados y consultores legales depredadores que pueden cobrar altas sumas de dinero por servicios que no requieren los inmigrantes y que podrían incluso perjudicarlos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero para muchos inmigrantes, las advertencias llegan muy tarde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una señora de El Salvador, cuyo nombre es María, residente de la ciudad de Bell, explica que ella y su esposo perdieron más de $5.000 en ahorros a una organización sin fines de lucro en Los Ángeles llamada \u003ca href=\"http://www.coalicionla.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional\u003c/a>. María pidió que no reveláramos su apellido por su estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con panfletos a todo brillo y propagandas llamativas en español en los periódicos, la coalición alega ser defensora acérrima de los derechos del inmigrante y proveedora muy hábil de servicios legales. María dice que el director de la coalición, Oswaldo Cabrera, prometió ayudar a su esposo, Dore, quien es residente permanente legal, hacerse ciudadano de los EE.UU., y después ayudar a conseguirle a ella estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Comenzamos a darle dinero y dinero y dinero”, explica María, quien indica que tuvo por semanas a la pareja con promesas falsas, una pesadilla de trámites confusos y audiencias de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo comencé a desconfiar”, explica María.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero (Cabrera) nos amenazó, diciendo que no había que jugar con él porque él es abogado. Y que si no jugábamos según sus reglas, haría que nos deporten”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María dice que cuando intentó hacer que le devolviera el dinero a la pareja, Cabrera se negó. A comienzos de este mes, María y su esposo entablaron una demanda contra él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional opera en una suite de pequeñas oficinas en un rascacielos de Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando me aparezco yo sin aviso una tarde, hay un puñado de personas sentadas sobre sofás raídos en la recepción.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10414261\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1-400x456.jpg\" alt=\"Un anuncio de la Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional, una organización sin fines de lucro de consultoría legal que también alega ser defensora de los derechos del inmigrante. La Coalición se encuentra enfrentada con varias demandas y quejas de consumidor de parte de varios clientes.\" width=\"400\" height=\"456\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10414261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1-400x456.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1-800x912.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un anuncio de la Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional, una organización sin fines de lucro de consultoría legal que también alega ser defensora de los derechos del inmigrante. La Coalición se encuentra enfrentada con varias demandas y quejas de consumidor de parte de varios clientes. \u003ccite>(Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cabrera interrumpe una reunión que sostiene con un par de clientes y me invita entrar a su oficina. Alega tener una especie de licencia internacional que le permite ofrecer consejo legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sí, de la profesión legal”, dice Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando se le pide mostrar tal licencia, no puede.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>También alega ser director de una organización sin fines de lucro en regla con el estado de California. Esto no lo corrobora la Oficina de la Secretaría del Estado de California. Recientemente la Secretaría le revocó la licencia de organización sin fines de lucro a Cabrera. Cuando le presento a Cabrera una página del sitio web de la Secretaría que indica su suspensión, alega que la información es errónea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no”, dice Cabrera.\u003cbr>\n“Esto se detuvo, ya no existe”, explica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tampoco aparece en el sitio web el nombre de Cabrera ni de su organización en una búsqueda de consultores de inmigración afianzados por la Secretaría del Estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una llamada de seguimiento a un representante de la Secretaría del Estado confirma que Cabrera no cuenta con licencia legal para operar como consultor legal remunerado ni como abogado para inmigrantes. En cuanto a la demanda contra Cabrera entablada por sus ex clientes María y su esposo, Cabrera dice que no la ha visto y no podía comentar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otra demanda entablada el año pasado por otro ex cliente presenta, entre otras cosas, que Cabrera abandonó al señor len a víspera de una audiencia de deportación — prometiéndole sin cumplir los servicios de un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No es cierto, no es cierto, porque el tipo está viviendo en este país”, dice Cabrera. “No es deportación, nunca. Esta información está equivocada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según el abogado del demandante, el juicio está activo y pendiente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Además de las demandas contra él, Cabrera tiene en su contra varias quejas ante el Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor del condado de Los Ángeles. No queda claro si esta dependencia tomará alguna acción contra él.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Si lo propuesto parece demasiado bueno como para ser cierto, lo probable es que sea fraude”\u003ccite>Brian Stiger, el director del Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor del condado de Los Ángeles\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>El director del Departamento, Brian Stiger, dice que la oficina misma envía advertencias de fraude a los servicios de inmigración mediante conferencias de prensa, talleres y otras medidas de extensión al público.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si lo propuesto parece demasiado bueno como para ser cierto, lo probable es que sea fraude”, asevera Stiger, quien indica que hay muchos estafadores que harán promesas imposibles referentes al remedio de la deportación que ofrece Obama, cuando en realidad el proceso de solicitud no comienza sino dentro de unos meses más. Los consultores legales delictivos también pueden hacer cobros exhorbitantes por trámites que los inmigrantes pueden hacer por su cuenta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No hay manera de adelantarse en la cola, ni tampoco hay garantía que se apruebe una solicitud”, explica Stiger. “Y muchas veces estos consultores de temas migratorios, de hecho los que son fraudulentos, cobran más que lo que cuesta presentar la solicitud”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://da.lacounty.gov/immigration.htm\" target=\"_blank\">La Oficina del Fiscal General del Condado de Los Ángeles\u003c/a>, el fiscal de la ciudad de Los Ángeles y el fiscal general de Los Ángeles prometen tomar medidas contra los que ofrecen servicios fraudulentos de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Oficina del Fiscal de la ciudad de Los Ángeles también ofrecerá una serie de asambleas públicas en varios idiomas a realizarse en las próximas semanas, en las que los inmigrantes tendrán acceso sin costo a ayuda de abogados y consultores licenciados para llenar los formularios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abogado de inmigración de Los Ángeles, Clemente Franco, explica que los defraudadores han operado durante años y que sus operaciones son bastante sofisticadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hay algunas organizaciones que cuentan con 10 o 15 sucursales”, comenta Franco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dicen que son activistas en defensa de los derechos del inmigrante, lo cual les da un aire de credibilidad, cuando en un sentido lo que son en realidad son lobos dentro de la comunidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobos que en realidad se valen del hecho que con frecuencia sus víctimas temen presentar una queja por motivo de su estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero María, inmigrante de El Salvador, dice que tenía que poner la mano al fuego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para que otros no caigan en el mismo problema”, explica. “Y que la gente haga un poquito más de investigación, para no caer en la misma trampa”.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y el porcentaje de personas que en realidad se presentan a quejarse es mínimo comparado con el número de personas que cae víctima del fraude”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Es por esta razón que Sharp intenta difundir la información sobre estas estafas a las personas ansiosas de solicitar la protección contra la deportación bajo la acción ejecutiva de Obama con presentar talleres en la sede del \u003ca href=\"http://www.carecen-la.org/faq-notarios/\" target=\"_blank\">Central American Resource Center\u003c/a> en Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una noche reciente, unas 150 personas se amontonaron en una de las salas de reunión del Centro. La presentación incluye detalles sobre los cambios que habrá bajo la acción ejecutiva que podrían permitir que algunos inmigrantes indocumentados, incluyendo aquellos que tienen hijos que son ciudadanos estadounidenses, permanezcan legalmente en los Estados Unidos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10414258\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10414258\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1-400x263.jpg\" alt=\"Director legal del Central American Resource Center Daniel Sharp dirige un taller cuyo fin es informar a los inmigrantes sobre la reciente acción ejecutiva del Presidente Obama.\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1-800x526.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Director legal del Central American Resource Center Daniel Sharp dirige un taller cuyo fin es informar a los inmigrantes sobre la reciente acción ejecutiva del Presidente Obama. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>También se advierte cautela para evitar a los abogados y consultores legales depredadores que pueden cobrar altas sumas de dinero por servicios que no requieren los inmigrantes y que podrían incluso perjudicarlos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero para muchos inmigrantes, las advertencias llegan muy tarde.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una señora de El Salvador, cuyo nombre es María, residente de la ciudad de Bell, explica que ella y su esposo perdieron más de $5.000 en ahorros a una organización sin fines de lucro en Los Ángeles llamada \u003ca href=\"http://www.coalicionla.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional\u003c/a>. María pidió que no reveláramos su apellido por su estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con panfletos a todo brillo y propagandas llamativas en español en los periódicos, la coalición alega ser defensora acérrima de los derechos del inmigrante y proveedora muy hábil de servicios legales. María dice que el director de la coalición, Oswaldo Cabrera, prometió ayudar a su esposo, Dore, quien es residente permanente legal, hacerse ciudadano de los EE.UU., y después ayudar a conseguirle a ella estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Comenzamos a darle dinero y dinero y dinero”, explica María, quien indica que tuvo por semanas a la pareja con promesas falsas, una pesadilla de trámites confusos y audiencias de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yo comencé a desconfiar”, explica María.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero (Cabrera) nos amenazó, diciendo que no había que jugar con él porque él es abogado. Y que si no jugábamos según sus reglas, haría que nos deporten”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María dice que cuando intentó hacer que le devolviera el dinero a la pareja, Cabrera se negó. A comienzos de este mes, María y su esposo entablaron una demanda contra él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional opera en una suite de pequeñas oficinas en un rascacielos de Los Ángeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando me aparezco yo sin aviso una tarde, hay un puñado de personas sentadas sobre sofás raídos en la recepción.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10414261\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1-400x456.jpg\" alt=\"Un anuncio de la Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional, una organización sin fines de lucro de consultoría legal que también alega ser defensora de los derechos del inmigrante. La Coalición se encuentra enfrentada con varias demandas y quejas de consumidor de parte de varios clientes.\" width=\"400\" height=\"456\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10414261\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1-400x456.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1-800x912.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion1.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un anuncio de la Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional, una organización sin fines de lucro de consultoría legal que también alega ser defensora de los derechos del inmigrante. La Coalición se encuentra enfrentada con varias demandas y quejas de consumidor de parte de varios clientes. \u003ccite>(Coalición Latinoamericana Internacional))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cabrera interrumpe una reunión que sostiene con un par de clientes y me invita entrar a su oficina. Alega tener una especie de licencia internacional que le permite ofrecer consejo legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sí, de la profesión legal”, dice Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cuando se le pide mostrar tal licencia, no puede.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>También alega ser director de una organización sin fines de lucro en regla con el estado de California. Esto no lo corrobora la Oficina de la Secretaría del Estado de California. Recientemente la Secretaría le revocó la licencia de organización sin fines de lucro a Cabrera. Cuando le presento a Cabrera una página del sitio web de la Secretaría que indica su suspensión, alega que la información es errónea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no”, dice Cabrera.\u003cbr>\n“Esto se detuvo, ya no existe”, explica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tampoco aparece en el sitio web el nombre de Cabrera ni de su organización en una búsqueda de consultores de inmigración afianzados por la Secretaría del Estado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una llamada de seguimiento a un representante de la Secretaría del Estado confirma que Cabrera no cuenta con licencia legal para operar como consultor legal remunerado ni como abogado para inmigrantes. En cuanto a la demanda contra Cabrera entablada por sus ex clientes María y su esposo, Cabrera dice que no la ha visto y no podía comentar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Otra demanda entablada el año pasado por otro ex cliente presenta, entre otras cosas, que Cabrera abandonó al señor len a víspera de una audiencia de deportación — prometiéndole sin cumplir los servicios de un abogado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No es cierto, no es cierto, porque el tipo está viviendo en este país”, dice Cabrera. “No es deportación, nunca. Esta información está equivocada”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Según el abogado del demandante, el juicio está activo y pendiente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Además de las demandas contra él, Cabrera tiene en su contra varias quejas ante el Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor del condado de Los Ángeles. No queda claro si esta dependencia tomará alguna acción contra él.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Si lo propuesto parece demasiado bueno como para ser cierto, lo probable es que sea fraude”\u003ccite>Brian Stiger, el director del Departamento de Asuntos del Consumidor del condado de Los Ángeles\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>El director del Departamento, Brian Stiger, dice que la oficina misma envía advertencias de fraude a los servicios de inmigración mediante conferencias de prensa, talleres y otras medidas de extensión al público.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si lo propuesto parece demasiado bueno como para ser cierto, lo probable es que sea fraude”, asevera Stiger, quien indica que hay muchos estafadores que harán promesas imposibles referentes al remedio de la deportación que ofrece Obama, cuando en realidad el proceso de solicitud no comienza sino dentro de unos meses más. Los consultores legales delictivos también pueden hacer cobros exhorbitantes por trámites que los inmigrantes pueden hacer por su cuenta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No hay manera de adelantarse en la cola, ni tampoco hay garantía que se apruebe una solicitud”, explica Stiger. “Y muchas veces estos consultores de temas migratorios, de hecho los que son fraudulentos, cobran más que lo que cuesta presentar la solicitud”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://da.lacounty.gov/immigration.htm\" target=\"_blank\">La Oficina del Fiscal General del Condado de Los Ángeles\u003c/a>, el fiscal de la ciudad de Los Ángeles y el fiscal general de Los Ángeles prometen tomar medidas contra los que ofrecen servicios fraudulentos de inmigración.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Oficina del Fiscal de la ciudad de Los Ángeles también ofrecerá una serie de asambleas públicas en varios idiomas a realizarse en las próximas semanas, en las que los inmigrantes tendrán acceso sin costo a ayuda de abogados y consultores licenciados para llenar los formularios.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abogado de inmigración de Los Ángeles, Clemente Franco, explica que los defraudadores han operado durante años y que sus operaciones son bastante sofisticadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hay algunas organizaciones que cuentan con 10 o 15 sucursales”, comenta Franco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dicen que son activistas en defensa de los derechos del inmigrante, lo cual les da un aire de credibilidad, cuando en un sentido lo que son en realidad son lobos dentro de la comunidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lobos que en realidad se valen del hecho que con frecuencia sus víctimas temen presentar una queja por motivo de su estatus legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero María, inmigrante de El Salvador, dice que tenía que poner la mano al fuego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/186974583\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Barack Obama’s recent executive action on immigration could pave the way for several million undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S. legally. And that has authorities bracing for a wave of scams targeting people seeking legal advice. Not only can immigrants lose thousands of dollars in such schemes, but they can also put themselves at greater risk of deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Sharp says immigrants show up at his office all the time with stories of how they were fleeced by people passing themselves off as immigration attorneys or licensed consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"UCTzdl4jLsovaCWPLD990BGMiy2JTdVU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s almost the perfect crime,” says Sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sharp is the legal director of the Central American Resource Center in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When someone falls victim and then eventually realizes what’s happened, it can often be months or years from the time that they initially paid the non-attorney for the legal service,” says Sharp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the percentage of people who actually come forward is minuscule compared to the number of people who actually fall victim to the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Sharp is trying to spread the word about such scams to people eager to apply for protection from deportation under Obama’s executive action at regular immigration workshops at the \u003ca title=\"Central American Resource Center\" href=\"http://www.carecen-la.org/\">Central American Resource Center’s \u003c/a>L.A. headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411799\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 484px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10411799\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams-400x262.jpg\" alt=\"Central American Resource Center legal director Daniel Sharp leads a workshop aimed at educating immigrants about President Obama’s recent executive action.\" width=\"484\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams-400x262.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/ImmigrantScams.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Central American Resource Center legal director Daniel Sharp leads a workshop aimed at educating immigrants about President Obama’s recent executive action. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a recent weeknight about 150 people packed into one of the center’s meeting rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The presentation includes details of changes coming under executive action that could enable some undocumented immigrants, including those with children who are U.S. citizens, to remain in the U.S. legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also stark warnings about avoiding predatory attorneys and legal consultants who may take large sums of money for services that immigrants do not need and that may actually end up hurting their cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many immigrants, it's too late for warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Salvadoran woman named Maria, who lives in the city of Bell, says she and her husband lost more than $5,000 in savings to an L.A. nonprofit called \u003ca title=\"Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional\" href=\"http://www.coalicionla.org/\">Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional\u003c/a>. Maria asked that we not use her last name because of her legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In glossy pamphlets and in splashy Spanish-language newspaper ads, the group claims to be a staunch advocate of immigrant rights and a savvy legal services provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria says the group’s director, Oswaldo Cabrera, promised to help her husband, Dore, a legal permanent resident, become a naturalized U.S. citizen and then help attain legal status for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We began to give him money and money and money,” explains Maria in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411795\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 425px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10411795\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion-400x455.jpg\" alt=\"An ad for Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional, a nonprofit legal consultancy that also claims to be an immigrant rights advocate. The Coalicion is facing numerous lawsuits and consumer complaints from former clients.\" width=\"425\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion-400x455.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion-800x911.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional, a nonprofit legal consultancy that also claims to be an immigrant rights advocate. The Coalicion is facing numerous lawsuits and consumer complaints from former clients. \u003ccite>(Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria says the couple was strung along for weeks with false promises, in a nightmare of bungled paperwork and immigration hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was getting suspicious,” says Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But (Cabrera) threatened us, saying that he wasn’t to be played with because he was an attorney. And that if we didn’t play by his rules, he could have us deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria says that when she tried to get the couple’s money back, Cabrera refused. Earlier this month, she and her husband sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional operates out of a suite of cramped offices in an L.A. high-rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I show up unannounced one afternoon, a handful of people are sitting on threadbare sofas in a reception area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrera interrupts a meeting with a couple of clients and invites me into his office. He claims to hold some kind of international license that allows him to dole out legal advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, in the law profession,” says Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to provide that license, he can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrera also claims to run a nonprofit in good standing with the state of California. Not according to the California Secretary of State’s Office. It recently yanked Cabrera’s nonprofit status. When I present Cabrera with a page from the secretary’s website showing his suspension, he claims the information is wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no,” says Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is stopped, this is no more,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor does Cabrera’s name or the name of his organization come up on a search of bonded immigration consultants at the secretary of state website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A follow-up call to a California secretary of state representative confirms that Cabrera is not legally licensed to be operating as a paid legal consultant or attorney to immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the lawsuit brought against Cabrera by former clients Maria and her husband, Cabrera says he hasn't seen it and could not comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another lawsuit filed last year by a different former client claims, among other things, that Cabrera abandoned the man on the eve of a deportation hearing -- promising and then failing to provide an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not true, it’s not true because the guy is living in this country,” says Cabrera. “It’s never deportation, never. This information is wrong. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the plaintiff’s attorney, the lawsuit is active and pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the lawsuits, Cabrera faces numerous complaints with the Los Angeles County Department of Consumer Affairs. But it’s unclear what action, if any, the office is taking against him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Director Brian Stiger says the office is sending immigration services fraud warnings of its own via news conferences, workshops and other public outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the deal is too good to be true, it is probably a scam,” says Stiger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says scammers will make impossible promises about Obama’s deportation relief, even though the application process won’t begin for months. Outlaw legal consultants can also charge exorbitant fees for things immigrants might be able to do themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no way to be first in line, there is no guarantee about an application being approved,” explains Stiger. “And many times these immigration consultants, certainly the fraudulent ones, are charging more money than it costs to apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca title=\"Los Angeles Office of Consumer Affairs \" href=\"http://da.lacounty.gov/immigration.htm\">The \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://da.lacounty.gov/immigration.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office,\u003c/a> the L.A. city attorney and the California attorney general all pledge to crack down on outlaw immigration service providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The L.A. City Attorney’s Office is also hosting a series of multi-lingual town halls in the coming weeks, where immigrants will be able to get help filling out forms for free from attorneys and licensed consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L.A. immigration attorney Clemente Franco says many scammers have been in business for years and run fairly sophisticated operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have some organizations that actually have 10, 15 offices,” says Franco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They claim to be immigration rights activists, so it gives them this aura of credibility. When in a sense they are really wolves among the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wolves that thrive on the fact that their victims are often too afraid to come forward because of their legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Salvadoran immigrant Maria says she needed to speak out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that other people don’t fall into the same trouble,” she says. “And that people will do a little more investigation, so that they don’t fall into the same trap.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Maria asked that we not use her last name because of her legal status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In glossy pamphlets and in splashy Spanish-language newspaper ads, the group claims to be a staunch advocate of immigrant rights and a savvy legal services provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria says the group’s director, Oswaldo Cabrera, promised to help her husband, Dore, a legal permanent resident, become a naturalized U.S. citizen and then help attain legal status for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We began to give him money and money and money,” explains Maria in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10411795\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 425px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-10411795\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion-400x455.jpg\" alt=\"An ad for Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional, a nonprofit legal consultancy that also claims to be an immigrant rights advocate. The Coalicion is facing numerous lawsuits and consumer complaints from former clients.\" width=\"425\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion-400x455.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion-800x911.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/Coalicion.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ad for Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional, a nonprofit legal consultancy that also claims to be an immigrant rights advocate. The Coalicion is facing numerous lawsuits and consumer complaints from former clients. \u003ccite>(Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria says the couple was strung along for weeks with false promises, in a nightmare of bungled paperwork and immigration hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was getting suspicious,” says Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But (Cabrera) threatened us, saying that he wasn’t to be played with because he was an attorney. And that if we didn’t play by his rules, he could have us deported.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria says that when she tried to get the couple’s money back, Cabrera refused. Earlier this month, she and her husband sued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coalicion Latinoamericana Internacional operates out of a suite of cramped offices in an L.A. high-rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I show up unannounced one afternoon, a handful of people are sitting on threadbare sofas in a reception area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrera interrupts a meeting with a couple of clients and invites me into his office. He claims to hold some kind of international license that allows him to dole out legal advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, in the law profession,” says Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked to provide that license, he can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cabrera also claims to run a nonprofit in good standing with the state of California. Not according to the California Secretary of State’s Office. It recently yanked Cabrera’s nonprofit status. When I present Cabrera with a page from the secretary’s website showing his suspension, he claims the information is wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, no,” says Cabrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is stopped, this is no more,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nor does Cabrera’s name or the name of his organization come up on a search of bonded immigration consultants at the secretary of state website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A follow-up call to a California secretary of state representative confirms that Cabrera is not legally licensed to be operating as a paid legal consultant or attorney to immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the lawsuit brought against Cabrera by former clients Maria and her husband, Cabrera says he hasn't seen it and could not comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another lawsuit filed last year by a different former client claims, among other things, that Cabrera abandoned the man on the eve of a deportation hearing -- promising and then failing to provide an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not true, it’s not true because the guy is living in this country,” says Cabrera. “It’s never deportation, never. 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